Alberto,Calati1965 ha scritto: ↑17 maggio 2020, 1:10 sfj....Your competence it's incredible.
Many compliments.
Ps
Any informatins about CAP and number inside circle are like a Gold for me!!
Tanks in advance.
Alberto
Cap in Germany is introduced during ww2 - to Allow People without a postal Education to do the Distribution of the outgoing Mail. They startend with Parcels, Followed by the introduction for Every Mail in early 43.
Germany had Never used Province names as Part of the address - in Italy you used the provinces to sort the Mail. The postmen in sicily did Not Need to know where Every small village in Piemont is- they read the Sigla di Provinzia and knew which Sack to put it in. Only 80 towns to remember- and most of them are known to every Italian ... German postmen need to remember more then 8000 postoffices ... some of them has province names - but just to distinguish them. E.g. Münster/Westf., Münster am Stein and Münster(OA Cannstatt) ... I know there are eight postoffice named like my hometown, but I don’t remember all the additions needed to distinguish them. Münster bei Dieburg is one of the trickier ones - there are two different Dieburgs But only one with a Münster near it ... (but if you write Dieburg bei Münster they will never find it because they will look for a small Dieburg next to a bigger Münster...
In addresses of that time you find the cap mostly in () or in a circle. And you find them in every cancel made after 1943. they used some old cancels without the cap, but these are different designs ...
Beside the cap the cancel also has the number of the post office, normally identical to the numero de quatiere which should be added to the address. You find the same in Rome and Naples ...
At Most cities the Post Office number was numerical only - and randomly distributed across the cities (in the order of opening of the offices). Nor some town there are additional letters BErlin, Leipzig have the directions N(orth), S,W, O and M(Id), whereas Dresden has A (old) and N(ew). But even there the number is unique ...